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Show MAKING A BETTER POSTAL SERVICE Among the many improvements in the postal service since the inauguration inaugura-tion of the new administration probably prob-ably nono will be more beneficial to the country generally than those coming com-ing under the bureau of the lourth assistant, as-sistant, over which Hon. James I Blakslee of Pennsylvania presides Tn his new post Mr. Blakslee brought a sunny and genial disposition coupled with these sterner qualities which are the attributes of what, in the slang of the day. is termned a "live wire." The bureau over which the new ofiicer presides h.is under it three important divisions; the great division of rural mails with its army of nearly 100,000 rural delivery and star route carriers, the important division of supplies and equipment which handles the supplies and equipment for the entire postal service and produces the rural delivery deliv-ery and star route maps furnished to the service and the public, and the division di-vision of dead letters with its small i A . ; f A . .:-:.. i - " - army of workers which locates the senders of undelivered mail as well as articles lost in the mails. In placing Mr. Blakslee at the head of this branch of the postal service the president and the postmaster general had in mind a number of reforms and imrroviunems and the record that he has made in in.iu.hs since bis rpoirtmeot luliy vindicates the wisdom cf their |